Media Computing Group

The Media Computing group focuses on advancing media technologies to help the evolution of computing technologies, and vice versa. By efficiently virtualizing the and aggregating input and output of a computing devices, we can enable many new computing experiences, for example, new user interfaces, seamless device collaboration, effortless resources sharing and migration, thin client computing leveraging the cloud and other devices. By leveraging new computing technologies, such as the cloud, mobile platforms, hardware media processors, various new sensors, small and big screens, we can enable new media experiences, for example, unlocking otherwise hidden digital assets, enhancing media data, adapting media contents to most-fit devices, analyzing and extracting useful information from big media data. The core technologies are developed around media analysis, compression, processing, communications, networking, user interface, security and system.

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By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research When the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) holds a conference, it must be difficult for participants to decide which sessions to attend, because creating easy, effective search experiences these days involves challenges potentially as diverse as dealing with multimedia, social media, relevance judgments, unstructured searches, and massive scalability. The 33rd annual ACM SIGIR Conference, being held at the University of Geneva from…

By Suzanne Ross History is being written in a new way. It is being written by people through the big and the small events in their lives. We write history through personal Web sites, discussion boards, and the legacy of photos, taken at moments that are important to us. Researchers at Microsoft have been working on a wide range of technologies that will help people write their personal histories through digital photography. To tell any…